Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. -
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. -
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. -
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. -
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.
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- We are always the same age inside.
- It is very easy to love alone.
- When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.